The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-29


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Well said Wood, with an awkward
smile, Il suppose that deed for one half, on
the consideration Of friendship, my dear sir,
and a dollar in hand paid by me, might be
reconcilable"
Now it's aAin' We are. But whose the
felly we're foighten, that's got the ringF'
-Ah, my dear sir, it's the United States"
said the lawyer with gravity.
The states! the government is its And
is't that ye're afearesl off Sure its the gov
eminent that fought in me own counthree,
il was the government that druv me to Amer
ky, and is it now that Tn goin' back on me
principles
Your political sentiments do you great
credit" began Mr. Wood
But fwhot-s the government to do wild the
appale!"
The government, said Mr.. Wood signifi-
cantly, will be represented by the district
attorney"
~And who's the spalpeen!
1T Is rumore,l,- sail Mr.. Wood slowly,
That Il now one i to he appointed L. my
self, have had some GrlbitiOn that way
His client Let.t pair of cunning but not
ovcrwise gray eyes on his American lawyer.
Rut he only said, +Te have, eh.7
Yes, saii Wood, answering the look boldly,
and if had the support of number of Your
prominent counrrymen, who are so powerful
with all partes-lnen ike you, my dear sir
why, think You might in time become u
conservative. at least more resigned to the
government
Then the lesser and the greater scamp
two felt warm sympathetic, friendly emo
ton for each other, and quietly shook hands
Depend upon it there is a great deal moru
kindly human sympathy between two openly
confessed Stamps than there is in that calm
respectable, recognition that you and ], dear
rea,ier, exhibit when happen to oppose
eacl other with our respective virtues.
And yen get the appael'
Il will"
And he did, And by singular coincidence
got tho district attorueyship also. And
with a decd for oue-haIf of the Red
Rock rancho IN his pocket sent brother
lawyer ia court to appear for his client, the
United States, against himself, Roscom-
mon. Garcia. ct al Wild horses could not
have torn him from this noble resolution
There l. am indescrIbable delicacy in the legal
profession whirh we literary folk ought To
initiate
The United States LOST Which meant ruin
and destruction to the Blue Mass Company
who hal bought from paternaI and benefi-
cent government LAMBS which didn't belong To
it, The Mexican grant, of course, ante-lated
the occupation of the mine by Concho, Wiles,
Pedro, ct al, rs well by the Blue Mas
Company and the solitary partners, Biggs
AMI Thatcher Moro than that, it swallowed
up their Improvements. 1t made Biggs and
That cher re~pons-..e to Garcia for all the
money the grand master of avarice had made
out of it, MIR District Attorney was APP
parentIy distrt>Sse,l but resigned. MesSrs.
Biggs and Thatcher wJro really distressed and
combative-
And then, to advance a few years in this
chronicle, began real litigation with earnest
ness, vigor, courage, zeal and belief on the
part of Bigs,s and Thatcher, and TECHNICAL
ties, delay, equivocation and general
Fabian-like policy on the part of Garcia,
Roscommon, ct al. OF all these tedious pro-
gs.z5as note hut one, whiC n for originality
and auslacity of conception appears to me to
Indicate more clearly the temper and civiliza-
ton of the epoch \ subordinate officer of
the district court refused to obey the man
| dat ordering transcri2t II the record to lie
sent up to the United States supreme court.
1t is to lie regretted that the name Of this
| EpIresian youth, who thus fire,l the dome of
ouI. constitutional liberties, should have
been otherwise 50 unimportant to
| be confined to the dusty records of
! that doubtful court of which he was
doubtful servitor, and that his Gain
to Immortality ccasssl with his double-fecd
! service. But there sti1 stands record a
| letter by this young GersIeman, arraisning
| the lell wisdom Of the land, which is not en-
| tircIv devoid of amusement even instruc-
| ton to young men DESTROYS of obtaining pub
| licity and capital IInwbcit, the supreme
| court was Obliged t. protect itself by procur-
! I'M the legislation of his functions out of its
local fingers into the larger palm of its own
| attorney
| These various PROCESSES of law and equity,
| which, when exercised practically in the af-
| fairs of ordinary business. might have occu-
| pictl a few months time, dragged, chung, re
| tro-raGed, or advanced slowly during a
period of eight or nine years. But the strong
arms of Biggs AMI That her held possession,
/ ".
| ON the other si,Ie, arrested or delayed eject
| ment, AMI so made and sold quicksilver, while
their opponents were spending gold until
| Biggs, sorelv hit in the interIacing of his ar
NOR, fell i'm the lists, his cheek growing
waxen and his strong arm feeble, and finding
| himself in this sore condition, and passing, rs
| it were, made over his share in trust to his
comrude and died. Whereat, from that time
henceforwar,l, Roral Thatcher reigned in his
! stead
And 81, havin:; anticipated the legal record,
we will go back to the various human i'll
terests that helped to make it up.
To begin with RoscommOn: To do
Justice to his Iatcr conduct and ex-
| preston, it must b. remembered that
| when he accepted the claim for the
| RED Rock rancho, yet unquestioned, from
/ thu h;ITIslS Of GarciI, he was careless, or at
least unsuspicsnuS o fraud 1t was not until
| H. had experienced the intoxication of htiga-
| ton that he felt, somehow, that he was a
| wronged and defrauied man, but with the
obstinacy of defrautied men, preferred To ar
| rain some one fact or individual as tho I'M
| ceiling cause of his wrong, rather than the
| various circumstances that led to it, To this
| simple mind it was made patent that the
| Blue Mass Company were making money
| out of a mine which he claimed, and which
was not vet adjudged TO them Every dollar
| they took out was a fresh count i'll this gen
eral Indictment. Every delay towards thi.
| adjustment of rights-although made by his
own lawyer-was a personal wrong. The
mere fact that there never was nor had beer
any quid pro quo for this immense property
! that it had fallen To him for mere song
only ati,ieI zest to his struggle The possibility
| of hi, loSin.. this mere speculation affected